Darning device to be used with sewing-machines



o. GQAKAM. Dawning Device to be usedwith Sewing-Maqhines.

No. 223,975. Patented Feb. 3,1880.

NPETEQE. FHOYO-LITHpGRAPNER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. AKAM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DARNING DEVI CE To BEUSED WITH SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 223,975, dated February 3, 1880.

7 Application filed April 30, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. AKAM, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented an article, aDarner or aDarning Device, to be used in connection with a sewing-machine forrdarning, mending,

or filling holes in fabrics, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 of drawings shows metallic band provided with a groove around it. and a series of notches on the upper surface. Fig. 2 shows section of plain band, to be used in connection with band in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows side View of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows band, Fig. 1, with thread drawn from side to side, and secured around the notches. Fig. 5 shows fabric with hole through,'and placed under threads drawn and secured therein. Fig. 6

.shows the darner placed with threads drawn and secured, and fabric with hole under the needle of sewing-machine.

Like references indicate like parts in the several figures of drawings.

A represents the metallic band. It may be in any form convenient. It is slightly beveled, and is provided with a groove running around it, and on the top surface are notches a a cut in the band. The notches form teeth, and the teeth have slight outward projection, so as to securely hold thread I) whendrawn around them, and are placed opposite. on the sides of the bands, so as to hold the threads b when drawn from side to side in parallels, leaving spaces between each thread drawn and fastened around the teeth a a, so as to supply a material for the stitches from the sewingmachine to fill in and across the drawn threads, thereby producing a firm and filled surface.

When the band A is threaded, as shown in Fig. 4, then the fabric 0, with a hole through, is placed over the band A and threads I), the

hole to be placed so that the drawn threads b will cover the hole. The fabric 0 is secured by placing an elastic band, B, around the outside of all, as shown in Fig. 5. Thus secured the same is placed under the sewing-machine needle. The outer surface of the fabric is placed. under or on the surface of the sewingmachine table, leaving the drawn threads b uppermost or on top,;a's shown in Fig. 6, then putting the sewing-machine in motion and stitching across the drawn threads, and moving the darner from side to side under the sewing-machine needle. (See Fig. 6.) The stitches made by the sewing-machine catching into the edge of the fabric 0, and continuously sewing across the drawn threads I), will fill the hole in the fabric 0, and form as smooth and even surface as the fabric is composed of, thereby Weaving, darning, mending, and filling the hole in fabrics in an easy way, and of a perfect and substantial material.

B shows section of band used to secure fabric 0 over drawn threads I).

Having thus described my invention, what I- claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A metallic beveled band provided with a groove around the same near its upper edge, and a series of notches cut in the upper surface of the band, forming teeth to hold the thread, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES G. AKAM.

Witnessesfl GEORGE BANCROFT, GILBERT F. BIGELOW. 

